by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:
Leftists are so frightened that Donald Trump will win the 2024 election that they’ve called on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire before disaster strikes.
The reason: They remember what happened when the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t retire before Trump was elected in 2016. She died on September 18, 2020, and the seat went to Amy Coney Barrett, who voted to overturn 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision that conferred the “right” to murder the unborn.
Thus, if Sotomayor, 69, dies or retires during Trump’s next term, the Court’s conservative majority could go from 6-3 to 7-2.
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Democratic senators are not joining calls for liberal Justice Sotomayor to retire.
But they fear that history could repeat itself after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s refusal to step down led to conservatives getting her seat. https://t.co/rfhLaOBBxE
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Soto’s Gotta Go
Nominated by Barack Hussein Obama, Sotomayor — who billed herself as a “wise Latina” who could teach the Court’s old white men a thing or two — joined the Supreme Court on August 8, 2009.
But aside from being the Court’s fount of Hispanic wisdom, she’s also a diabetic who travels with either a medic and/or medical equipment, HuffPost reported in February, citing federal records.
That explains the worry among leftists who fear a possible 7-2 conservative majority will end leftist jurisprudence for the foreseeable future. Sotomayor must retire now to ensure that another anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-American leftist lands on the Court … while Joe Biden is still in the White House and Democrats control the U.S. Senate.
It’s an insurance policy for the Left, columnist Josh Barro explained.
“If Sotomayor does not retire this year, we don’t know when she will next be able to retire with a likely liberal replacement,” he wrote:
It’s possible that Democrats will retain the presidency and the Senate at this year’s elections, in which case the insurance created by a Sotomayor retirement won’t have been necessary. But if Democrats lose the presidency or the Senate this fall (or both) she’ll need to stay on the court until the party once again controls both. That could be just a few years, or it could be a while — for example, Democrats have previously had to wait 14 years from 1995 to 2009, and 12 years from 1981 to 1993. In other words, if Sotomayor doesn’t retire this year, she’ll be making a bet that she will remain fit to serve through age 82 or 84 — and she’ll be taking the whole Democratic Party coalition along with her in making that high-stakes bet.
If Democrats lose the bet, the court’s 6-3 conservative majority will turn into a 7-2 majority at some point within the next decade. If they win the bet, what do they win? They win the opportunity to read dissents written by Sotomayor instead of some other liberal justice. This is obviously an insane trade. Democrats talk a lot about the importance of the Court and the damage that has been done since the court has swung in a more conservative direction, most obviously including the end of constitutional protections for abortion rights.
Citing Politico, Barro observed that most Democrats won’t ask her to retire because she’s Hispanic.
Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, NBC reported, thinks otherwise.
“I’m very respectful of Justice Sotomayor. I have great admiration for her. But I think she really has to weigh the competing factors,” he said:
“We should learn a lesson. And it’s not like there’s any mystery here about what the lesson should be. The old saying — graveyards are full of indispensable people, ourselves in this body included.”
Blumenthal emphasized that Sotomayor is “a highly accomplished and, obviously, fully functioning justice right now.” He added that “justices have to make their personal decisions about their health, and their level of energy, but also to keep in mind the larger national and public interest in making sure that the court looks and thinks like America.”
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